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Christina Aguilera & Blake Shelton: 'Just A Fool' Performance on 'The Voice'!
Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton perform their song "Just A Fool" together during the live performance episode of The Voice on Monday (November 19).
The 31-year-old singer enlisted her The Voice co-coach for the song, which is off her new album Lotus, in stores now!
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Earl Simmons aka DMX was arrested again yesterday outside a mall in Phoenix, Arizona. This time the rapper was taken in for allegedly using a false name and social security number at the Scottsdale Mayo Clinic back in April.
DMX used the name 'Troy Jones' in an effort to try and get out of $7,500 in medical expenses. He is now in the Maricopa County jail on felony charges.
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Days after her nude photos leaked online, Teen Mom star Amber Portwood is still talking about it as she is now planning to "go after" the person who stole them.
"I've never given anything to anybody. I wouldn't do that," the 20-year-old tells E! News. "I know 100 percent who did it, and I'm going to go after them full force."
And while Amber doesn't mention the name of the alleged thief, she does rule out on-again beau and father of her 2-year-old daughter Leah, Gary Shirley.
"No, no, Gary didn't do it," says Amber. "He wasn't around me because of the no contact order when I took those pictures, but there were a bunch of people who were and I'm sure I know who it was."
So why isn't she naming the alleged perpetrator? "I want to surprise them," Amber explains. "Those pics were taken for personal reasons. I didn't send them to anyone. I didn't take them for sexual reasons. This is embarrassing enough. It's just weird. The person who did this is f***ed."
Right. In other Amber news, she and Gary were photographed above heading to an Oscars viewing party on Sunday. The two also spent the weekend jewelry shopping as a rep from Kay Jewelers tells the HollywoodLife that Gary bought Amber a $1,300 promise ring.
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I first heard this music many years ago when I came to Florida and started studying yoga. I have a cassette tape of Sochai Soch with a copyright of 1990. Just listening to it puts me in a calm, relaxing mood almost immediately. I have hoped for years for this to become available. I assume it is the same. My cassette is titled Sochai Soc (Sochai Soch Na Hovee) by Matamandir Singh Khalsa & Friends from NM. Of course, as a musician, it was difficult not to harmonize with the music, insinstead of concentrating on the yoga, as I was supposed to be doing.
Relaxation is not the absence of stress, for stress is endemic in our society. If we are under stress we can not sleep, eat or digest well. Communication tends to be ineffective. It is more difficult to be patient, loving or helpful to other people. Many diseases are caused by stress. So if we cant avoid stress, what we can do is find a place within ourselves that gives us the experience of stillness and detachment. Once that place is found we dont need to react or be controlled by stress. Relaxation, like all other skills, can be learned by regular daily practice until it begins to permeate ones life. Good diet and exercise for the body and Naad Yoga for the mind give us the tools to deal with the modern pace of life without resorting to harmful habits or drugs. Relaxation allows the healing process to begin.
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Skip to comments.Eating our own...Time to make a new start in Free Republic.
Posted on 07/26/2004 7:41:11 PM PDT by Bob J
The last few months I've seen an increasing trend for FReepers to start going for each others jugular. Sometimes we forget (I've certainly done it myself) that in the grand scheme of things, we are on the same team. We may disagree on priorities or how far we are willing to go, but we have enough enemy in the left without creating more amongst ourselves. We can disagree but be civil to each other. We can debate nuance, but not believe that our personal positions are more important than the health of the whole. Let's argue vigorously but remind ourselves the guy whose trachia we are ripping out today may be sitting next to us in a foxhole tommorrow.
I'm going to propose that we all make a new start. Let's put all past differences behind us and resolve to band together and fight the good fight, the elimination of liberalism as a significant culturual influence in America...and see that to its end in our lifetimes.
If you agree, please post your thoughts and ping your lists and your friends to this thread.
How do you 'tweak':
Same sex / any sex marriage
Open borders
Legalized drugs
End of war on terrorism?
How do you 'tweak':
Same sex / any sex marriage
Open borders
Legalized drugs
End of war on terrorism?
I'm the patron saint of lost causes...heheh.
I give up - why was this post yanked? I thought the keywords were destroyed by the maint. Apparently not. What's up?
When the door was WIDE OPEN for a 3rd Party (GHWB's failed incumbancy bid for POTUS), big groups of people that I know, including myself, looked high and low and the sorry GOP was all we had...and we know how that decade went. What we got was a worthless 'Reform' Party and now a 'Green' Party and other odds and ends that can't quite seem to get a clue.
So you're voting for Kerry, or Nader? You said 'those of us on the left', so I was wondering which stripe of communism suits you.
I would like to dissect your post line by line and would rather do so with your participation.
If I misread your direct statement, please accept my apologies.
I prefer pure communism (with me in charge of course) and oppose totalitarian regimes of any stripe. Communism works only where the vast majority of folks have nothing...and working together lightens the load.
That philosophical interlude aside, the practical matter is that Democrats are no more communist than Republicans are fascists as a general rule. There are exceptions on the fringes but I'm as close to the middle as I choose...hard left on social issues and hard right on defense. I like Democrats as a rule to fix the streets and carry the water because they do it better than the guys from the country club who don't tip the caddy. I like the Republicans on national defense because they know how profitable kicking arse can be and don't worry about offending somebody's great uncle in the old country.
For the record, I believe most libertarians are decent enough but they seem to gravitate to the lunatics when it comes to politics. As to Kerry v. Nader? If those were the two choices I would of course vote for myself.
I'm not that concerned about "same-sex marriage", but if you think it's that important, then propose a blanket, nationwide ban on it. That'll require monkeying around with the Constitution, and liberals would LOVE to make some changes of their own if we ever get under the hood.
"Open borders": I take Boortz' position... if you're from somewhere else, and you wanna come here so bad, fine; but you pay your own damn way, no siphoning off the dole, and if you're a criminal in your old country, you can damn well stay there.
"Legalized drugs": I'm not for all of them being legalized, so that would be the change to the LP platform in my book. But lets' be real about the whole drug thing: If the Drug Worriers are so concerned, then get a Constitutional amendment added that makes the WoD legitimate. Like Prohibition. Put it on paper, and take it out of bastard-war status.
"End of war on terrorism": I don't like the LP's position on that anymore than you do, cin, but I am something of a non-interventionist - we ONLY need to be getting involved in other peoples' squabbles when it's ABSOLUTELY necessary.
However, I'd like to pull a regime change in Cuba. But that's just a personal grudge.
Boy I'd like to see that!
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
Posts from the past......
"George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent"
Compensating for Demonrat fraud, I'd say you were just about right.
Post # 41 - Paranoia is a bad start.
Well, you made it 40 posts before busting on someone!
That's longer than I've ever gone! ;^)
I disagree. Promoting the whole at the cost of the individual is a Communistic concept. Rugged individualism is one of the strengths of conservatism.
Thanks! I agree.
post terri bump for an oldie but goodie
Something that bugs me? Vanity posts. Useless wastes of bandwidth.
Eating our own...Time to make a new start in Free Republic.
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Carle Foundation Hospital has partnered with the University of Illinois to create the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, which uniquely focuses on integrating engineering principles into medical education. As a result of this partnership, Carle is making significant investments in new research programs, scientists and clinician researchers, particularly in the area of medical imaging. Carle is seeking a founding Director for a new Clinical Imaging Research Center in the Department of Radiology. The Center will be a focal point for development of novel imaging solutions for clinical challenges. The Director will have responsibility for recruitment of junior scientist and clinician scientist faculty in the Center and will guide investment in new research imaging equipment.
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Why would the president of the University of Arkansas give any thoughts to retaining Bobby Petrino as the football coach at that institution? What does the coach offer in terms of an ethical example to the general student body and specifically the athletes at the school?
Lying to the police officials, lying to the school officials, hiring a woman - with whom he's having an affair - onto his personal football staff, obviously lying to his spouse and family. Are these things which should warrant any future employment at this school or any other institution of higher learning in the country? Doesn't this incident and his previous "checkered" past just demonstrate that there are no ethical or moral values which this coach offers?
One last question, why would it take more than one minute for the president to make the decision? Hopefully, it doesn't mean that football is more important than the educational aspects of the school. I guess we already know the answer to this last question.
Sun City
For some time my Wednesday paper is always damp upon arrival. I attribute this to the copious tears shed by the lowcountry liberal (L-square) over the possibility that reducing federal spending in any way will do grievous harm to the multitudes of "the least of those among us." In L-square's mind federal entitlements are the mothers' milk essential to economic reovery and health. They have long been the source of nutrition and growth of the Democrat party: Buying votes with numerous programs.
This week in L-square's federal Candyland we learn the wonders of a proposed Democrat Progressive Caucus budget which promises wonderful things without cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, dependent only on making the wealthy pay their fair share. This budget features $2.9 trillion of job-creating opportunities and $6.8 trillion of deficit reduction -- both without devastating programs Americans love and want. (More tears, please).
How can one conceive such utter nonsense? Is it cretinous? Delusional? Or just the usual lie? It's straight from the Alfred E. Newman school of economics, and characterized by Al's famous question: "What, me worry?"
If we, as voters, fail to defeat candidates favoring this kind of economic suicide, I doubt we will have another opportunity. Democrat voting blocs: racial/ethnic minorities, union members (especially public sector), academia, ill-educated young adults, and government employees (plus families) are rapidly approaching a national majority. And the "greatest generation" is passing away.
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Reading Comprehension Practice Test 1
Passage For Question 1 to 9
"Most economists in the United states seem captivated by spell of the free market. Consequently, nothing seems good ornormal that does not accord with the requirements of the free market. A price that is determined by the seller or for that matter, established by anyone other than the aggregate of consumers seems pernicious, Accordingly, it requires a major act of will to think of price – fixing (the determination of prices by the seller) as both "normal" and having a valuable economic function. In fact, price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an effortless consequence of its own development, the price-fixing that requires, Modern industrial planning requires and rewards great size. Hence a comparatively small number of large firms will be competing for the same group of consumers. That each large firm will act with consideration of its own needs and thus avoid selling its products for more than its competitors charge is commonly recognized by advocates of free-markets economic theories. But each large firms will also act with full consideration of the needs that it has in common with the other large firms competing for the same customers. Each large firm will thus avoid significant price cutting, because price cutting would be prejudicial to the common interest in a stable demand for products. Most economists do not see price-fixing when it occurs because they expect it to be brought about by a number of explicit agreements among large firms; it is not. More over those economists who argue that allowing the free market to operate without interference is the most efficient method of establishing prices have not considered the economies of non socialist countries other than the United States. These economies employ intentional price-fixing usually in an overt fashion. Formal price fixing by cartel and informal price fixing by agreements covering the members of an industry are common place. Were there something peculiarly efficient about the free market and inefficient about price fixing, the countries that have avoided the first and used the second would have suffered drastically in their economic development. There is no indication that they have. Socialist industry also works within a frame work of controlled prices. In early 1970's, the soviet union began to give firms and industries some of the flexibility in adjusting prices that a more informal evolution has accorded the capitalist system. Economists in the United States have hailed the change as a return to the free market.But Soviet firms are no more subject to prices established by free market over which they exercise little influenced than are capitalist firms.
Question 1
The primary purpose of the passage is to
- refute the theory that the free market plays a useful role in the development of industrialized societies.
- suggest methods by which economist and members of the government of the United States can recognize and combat price-fixing by large firms.
- explain the various ways in which industrialized societies can fix in order to stabilized the free market
- argue that price-fixing, in one form or another, is an inevitable part of and benefit to the economy of any industrialized society.
- Analysis of free markets in different economies
Correct Answer : E
Question 2
The passage provides information that would answer which of the following questions about price-fixing?
I.What are some of the ways in which prices can be fixed?
II.For what products is price-fixing likely to be more profitable than the operation of the free market?
III.Is price-fixing more common in socialist industrialized societies or in nonsocialist industrialized societies?
- I only
- III only
- I and II only
- II and III only
- I, II and III
Correct Answer : A
Question 3
The author's attitude toward "Most economists in the United States" can best be described as
- spiteful and envious
- scornful and denunciatory
- critical and condescending
- ambivalent but deferential
- uncertain but interested
Correct Answer : C
Question 4
It can be inferred from the author's argument that a price fixed by the seller "seems pernicious" because
- people do not have confidence in large firms
- people do not expect the government to regulate prices
- most economists believe that consumers as a group should determine prices.
- most economists associate fixed prices with communist and socialist economies.
- Most economists believe that no one group should determine prices.
Correct Answer : C
Question 5
The suggestion in the passage that price-fixing in industrialized societies is normal arises from the author's statement that price-fixing is
- a profitable result of economic development
- an inevitable result of the industrial system
- the result of a number of carefully organized decisions.
- a phenomenon common to industrialized and to industrialized societies.
- a phenomenon best achieved cooperatively by government and industry.
Correct Answer : B
Question 6
According to the author, priced-fixing in nonsocialist countries is often.
- accidental but productive
- illegal but useful
- legal and innovative
- traditional and rigid
- intentional and widespread.
Correct Answer : E
Question 7
According to the author, what is the result of the Soviet Union's change in economic policy in the 1970's?
- Soviet firms show greater profit
- Soviet firms have less control over the free market
- Soviet firms are able to abject to technological advances.
- Soviet firms have some authority to fix prices.
- Soviet firms are more responsive to the free market.
Correct Answer : D
Question 8
8.With which of the following statements regarding the behavior of large firms in industrialized societies would the author be most likely to agree.
- The directors of large firms will continue to anticipate the demand for products
- The directors of large firms are less interested in achieving a predictable level of profit tan in achieving a large profit.
- The directors of large firms will strive to reduce the costs of their products.
- Many directors of large firms believe that the government should establish the prices that will be charged for products.
- Many directors of large firms believe that the price charged for products is likely to increase annually.
Correct Answer : A
Question 9
In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with
- predicting the consequences of a practice
- criticizing a point of view
- calling attention to recent discoveries.
- proposing a topic for research.
- summarizing conflicting opinions.
Correct Answer : B
Passage For Question 10 to 15
The discoveries of the white dwarf, the neutron star, and the black hole, coming well after the discovery of the red giant are among eh most exciting developments in decades because they may be well present physicists with their greatest challenge since thefailure of classical mechanics. In the life cycle of the star, after all of the hydrogen and helium fuel has been burned, the delicate balance between the outer nuclear radiation.pressure and the stable gravitational force becomes disturbed and slow contraction begins. As compression increases, a very dense plasma forms. If the initial star had mass of less than 1.4 solar masses (1.4 times the mass of our sun), the process ceases at the density of 1,000 tons per cubic inch, and the star becomes the white dwarf. However, if the star was originally more massive, the white dwarf plasma can't resist the gravitations pressures, and in rapid collapse, all nuclei of lthe star are converted to a gas of free neutrons. Gravitational attraction compresses this neutron gas rapidly until a density of 10 tons per cubic inch is reached; at this point the strong nuclear force resists further contraction. If the mass of the star was between 1.4 and a few solar masses, the process stops here, and we have a neutron star. But if the original star was more massive than a few solar masses, even the strong nuclear forces cannot resist the gravitational orunch. The neutrons are forced into one another to form heavier hadrons and these in turn coalesce to form heavier entities, of which we as yet know nothing. At this point, a complete collapse of the stellar mass occurs; existing theories predict a collapse to infinite density and infinitely small dimensions Well before this, however, the surface gravitational force would become so strong that no signal could ever leave the star - any photon emitted would fall back under gravitational attraction – and the star would become black hole in space. This gravitational collapse poses a fundamental challenge to physics. When the most widely accepted theories predict such improbable things as infinite density and infinitely small dimensions, it simply means that we are missing some vital insight. This last happened in physics in the 1930's, when we faced the fundamental paradox concerning atomic structure. At that time, it was recognized that electrons moved in table orbits about nuclei in atoms. However, it was also recognized that if charge is accelerated, as it must be to remain in orbit, it radiates energy; so, theoretically, the electron would be expected eventually to spiral into the nucleus and destroy the atom. Studies centered around this paradox led to the development of quantum mechanics. It may well be that an equivalent t advance awaits us in investigating the theoretical problems presented by the phenomenon of gravitational collapse.
Question 10
The primary purpose of the passage is to
- offer new explanations for the collapse of stars.
- explain the origins of black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs.
- compare the structure of atoms with the structure of the solar system.
- explain how the collapse of stars challenges accepted theories of physics.
- describe the imbalance between radiation pressure and gravitational force.
Correct Answer : D
Question 11
According to the passage, in the final stages of its devedlopment our own sun is likely to take the form of a
- white dwarf
- neutron star
- red giant
- gas of free neutrons
- black hole
Correct Answer : A
Question 12
According to the passage, an imbalance arises between nuclear radiation pressure and gravitational force in stars because
- the density of a star increases as it ages
- radiation pressure increases as a star increases in mass
- radiation pressure decreases when a star's fuel has been consumed
- the collapse of a star increases its gravitational force.
- a dense plasma decreases the star's gravitational force.
Correct Answer : C
Question 13
The author asserts that the discoveries of the white dwarf, the neutron star, and the black hole are significant because these discoveries.
- demonstrate the probability of infinite density and infinitely small dimensions
- pose the most comprehensive and fundamental problem faced by physicists in decades
- clarify the paradox suggested by the collapse of electrons into atomic nuclei.
- establish the relationship between the mass and gravitational pressure.
- assist in establishing the age of the universe by tracing the life histories of stars.
Correct Answer : B
Question 14
The passage contains information that answers which of the following questions?
- I only
- III only
- I and II only
- II and III only
- I, II and III
Correct Answer : E
Question 15
The author introduces the discussion of the paradox concerning atomic structures in order to
- Show why it was necessary to develop quantum mechanics
- Compare the structure of an atom with the structure of star
- Demonstrate by analogy that a vital insight in astrophysics is missing
- Illustrate the contention that improbable things do happen in astrophysics
- Argue that atoms can collapse if their electrons do not remain in orbit.
Correct Answer : C


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EAST LANSING, Mich., May 31 (UPI) -- Lower-income children had healthier diets when their moms led by example and persuaded but did not "yell at them" to eat their vegetables, U.S. researchers say.
Sharon Hoerr, a professor of food science and human nutrition at Michigan State University, and colleagues said overtly restricting certain foods from a child when others are eating them at mealtimes can lead to unhealthy eating.
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Parents could maintain regular meal and snack times and offer smaller portions of healthy foods, allowing children to decide how much they will eat, Hoerr suggested.
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LONDON (AP) — The English National Opera's 2013-14 season will include a world premiere of Oedipus-inspired opera "Thebans" and the return of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam to direct a new production, the company announced Wednesday.
"Thebans," based on the tragedies of Sophocles, is a first opera from composer Julian Anderson, with libretto by Irish playwright Frank McGuinness. It opens in May 2014.
Gilliam, who directed "The Damnation of Faust" at the ENO in 2011, will lead a production of Hector Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini" in June 2014.
Both will be conducted by ENO Musical Director Edward Garner.
The season includes 10 new productions, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte," directed by Katie Mitchell, a Calixto Bieito-directed production of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio" and Mozart's "The Magic Flute" directed by Simon McBurney — a co-production with the Netherlands Opera.
The company also plans revivals of recent successes including David Alden's production of Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes" and Phelim McDermott's staging of Philip Glass's Gandhi opera "Satyagraha."
Unlike its London neighbor the Royal Opera, the ENO performs all its works in English. It also has tried to overcome opera's often stuffy image, offering audiences 3-D cinema broadcasts, casual performances aimed at younger music-lovers and an opera about the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
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Latest Groton wind farm fight: Snow plowingBy DAN SEUFERT
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April 22. 2014 8:40AM
GROTON – The Attorney General and local residents are protesting an attempt by Groton Wind, LLC to avoid having to plow the roads leading to its 24 ridge-line wind turbines during winter months.
And Senior Assistant Attorney General Peter Roth said Monday he wants the company to move its warehouse-sized operations and maintenance building at the top of Groton Hollow Road across the road from where it sits, despite the contention by Groton Wind and its parent company, Iberdrola Renewables of Spain, that the company could not build on that site.
The company said when it built the wind farm three years ago, it changed the location of the "O&M" building to avoid problems it found on the planned site. The company said it cleared the change in plans with the state's Department of Environmental Services.
But Roth says the company needed to tell all the necessary state agencies about the change in plans, not just DES.
"They need to move the building to where it was supposed to be, it's a violation of their operating certificate if they don't," Roth said.
The SEC has threatened to pull the plant's operation license because of a long list of violations found by state inspectors. Many of the issues have apparently been solved by an agreement announced last week between the state Fire Marshal and Groton Wind, though the agreement has yet to be approved by the SEC.
Issues still remain, Roth said, that must be addressed, such as the location of the operations building and access and maintenance to the turbine roads.
The certificate and operating agreement with the town required Groton Wind to construct and maintain roads at its facility "that allow for year-round access to each wind turbine at a level that permits passage and turnaround of emergency response vehicles."
But in a motion filed last week with the state's Site Evaluation Committee, Groton Wind and Iberdrola Renewables officials said they would rather have access to the towers in the winter via snow machine.
A study done by Iberdrola Revewables found that "plowing on steep grade roads creates a safety concern, increases concentration of spring melt runoff and would be extremely costly." Iberdrola also states that "turbine access during the winter months will be provided by a snow cat or similar vehicle."
Iberdrola's plan "presents the safest and most environmentally sound way to maintain the turbine roads," the company said in its filing.
Mark Watson, who lives 1½ miles from the east turbines, is an "intervenor" in the SEC's ongoing investigation into complaints at the plant. He says the company is trying to save money by not plowing. In a letter to the SEC, Watson said he was "disappointed Iberdrola would place financial concern before the safety of residents of surrounding communities."
The neighboring town of Rumney has also expressed concern to the town and the state about not being able to access the towers in winter if an emergency occurs.
"The company hasn't yet presented an emergency response plan, as they required to," Roth said, who is representing the public in this case.
"The certificate established that the roads should be open and accessible at all times," he said. "The company needs to stick to its certificate."
Iberdrola responded to the protests late Monday afternoon.
"With all due respect, we don't feel the place to settle these issues is in the media. There's a process in place and we're working very hard within that process to reasonably and responsibly satisfy all concerned parties. Safety is our top priority for our employees, neighbors and the general public," said Art Sasse, Iberdrola's director of communications and brand.


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This is all Sam's fault.
She's the one that made me read "Let's Pretend This Never Happened", which basically is a memoir about someone whose childhood was almost as f$%&ed up as mine. But not quite.
For example, she talks about this one time when her crazy Dad set off an antique cannon to celebrate a holiday. OK, cool. That's pretty weird, I'll give you that.
The time my Dad wanted to set off a cannon for his birthday, all we had was a cannonball. So Dad shoved a half pound of gunpowder and said cannonball into a four-foot section of PVC pipe, stuck one end of it in the side of a small hill, dropped a flaming pack of matches into the open end, and told us all to run like Hell. I have no idea what happened after that, because instinct took over and buy the time I heard the 'BOOM' I had barricaded myself indoors underneath the overturned sofa. Possibly locking the rest of the family outside on my way in. That's OK, though. They were all assholes.
You want to know how I know they were all assholes? The whole reason we had a cannonball to start with was because my grandparents, who lived at the very top of a big giant hill (like, many acres of hill) thought it was hilarious to roll the cannonball down the hill and watch their faithful and long-suffering German Shepherd fetch it back again. A cannonball. With his teeth. It would take him an hour to wrestle the damn thing the quarter-mile back up to the house, because a cannonball weighs like 20 pounds and is made of metal. And do you know what they would do when he finally made it to the top? I mean, once they had stopped whooping with laughter? They would roll it right back down their mini-mountain.
Which is why we had a cannonball. Also a fairly good explanation of why I don't talk to that side of the family all that much any more.


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Four simple steps could turn your video content into a powerful driver of organic search traffic, but video works differently to web pages in search engines and this technical detail is causing a lot of brands to miss out.
However, reaching page one of Google is substantially easier with video than a web page.
These top tips will tell you exactly what you need to do to harness the power of video SEO.
On Thursday I had the great pleasure of representing Econsultancy talking about the geeky subject of Video SEO to an audience at Marketing Week Live. I was amazed at how popular the topic was!
More than 30 people have been in touch on Twitter asking for a copy of the slides so I thought I'd note down some of the headlines here for people to read.
Most brands are missing out by not bothering
While most businesses are spending worthwhile funds improving their position in search engine results pages through SEO, very few are doing the same for video despite the fact it's a lot simpler.
Because few people are doing it, competition is lower and it's reputedly 50 times easier to reach page one of Google with a video than it is with a web page (Forrester, 2011).
Google can't see what's in your videos
Search engines are not yet clever enough to see what's actually going on in the video, so adjusting the edit to make it more search engine friendly won't help!
What matters here is metadata – information that exists about the video, that search engines use to determine what to display on search engine results pages (SERPs).
Google has an index just for videos
When Google displays video results in SERPs, those results come from querying Google's video index. This is a big index of all the videos on the web that Google knows about.
It automatically includes anything that's public on YouTube. But it can also include videos that are hosted on your site. The thing you need in order to do this is a video sitemap, which is a relatively technical undertaking but worth the investment in time.
Online video platforms like Buto generate video sitemaps for you automatically. They've created a handy guide to video sitemaps on their blog, which will guide you through the steps you need to take even if you're not a customer.
Video doesn't always appear as part of search
Google has the option to display video results only, but this has recently moved off the default navigation menu for most people and into 'More'.
So now your video SEO work is primarily focused on reaching the top two or three positions so your videos appear on page one as part of blended search.
Google only displays blended results when it thinks videos might be particularly relevant to the keyword or phrase someone's searched for.
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What about YouTube?
YouTube is the second most popular search engine in the world. Unlike Google, which can't tell much about the videos on your site, YouTube knows a lot about the videos it hosts and uses this richer information to determine the order of its own search engine results.
All of the following factors have an impact on positioning in YouTube search:
- Metadata – video title, description and tags (just like Google video search).
- Number of comments and shares.
- Date added (new videos will rank highly).
- View count (and channel view count, number of subscribers and playlist adds).
- Rating and flagging.
- Incoming links (exposure on other sites, other embeds, RSS links).
Most of these ranking considerations are down to actions that viewers take, not things you can control or manipulate. This places even greater importance on content and means your video's rise to success in search is dependent on it taking off from the word go.
More can be found on video SEO in Econsultancy's Online Video Best Practice Guide. If you were at Marketing Week Live and want the slides just @reply me via @steffanaquarone.
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Thomas Pink have had some recent success with Video SEO, for example, search for https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bengal+stripe+shirt and there is a nice video result in the first page. It really stands out from the crowd.
Your comment about the date of a video being taken into consideration with YouTubes SERP's is also why it is key that a video marketing strategy be long term and not just a one to two video campaign.
Nice article, thank you. I wonder for how long Google will not be able to see what's inside a video ... metadata (at least, owner generated metadata) was devalued as a search ranking factor for web pages a while ago, and you imagine that Google would prefer to be indexing the actual content of the video. Interesting to know when they'll get there!
That's a good question David. Apparently Google did find some cats in videos programmatically last year: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/google-x-neural-network/
One aspect that always gets forgotten that does have an impact. Upload the transcript file to make sure that youtube and google ca read what is said correctly. The auto transcript facility of youtube is fairly sketchy at best
One aspect that always gets forgotten that does have an impact. Upload the transcript file to make sure that youtube and google ca read what is said correctly. The auto transcript facility of youtube is fairly sketchy at best
As a video producer, it's been disappointing to see some clients bury videos deep within websites, or roughly abandon them on YouTube, never to be seen again. There are great opportunities to turn this sad situation around though, and it's gratifying to hear more discussion about specific remedies. Thank you!
Thank you for posting this post, we apperciate your post on While most businesses are spending worthwhile funds improving their position in search engine results pages through SEO, very few are doing the same for video despite the fact it's a lot simpler.
Though Google can't see what's in your videos for SEO, still the can trac related all other things with the video for SEO.
The article talks about how technical and expensive video sitemaps are to implement, however I have to mention that there are solutions out there, such as Treepodia which won't put a dent in your marketing budget.
Video has become the first port-of-call when shopping online, so getting videos to the top of the results in a total must. Take Stuart's example from above. A great example of how video stands out from the crowd.
Interesting comments Mike, and thanks to Stuart for posting the example. We are the company behind the success of this campaign for Thomas Pink. Our technology platform and specific video centric SEO work is why they are benefiting from these positions and our video sitemap generator is part of the toolset we provide to clients.
Searches for 'White shirts' and 'Wedding shirts' provide further evidence of the effectiveness of our platform.
Rich blog here. I wonder if google keeps this as a secret as well. Also, I like the fact that youtube plays a big role on google seo.
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Two race car drivers sped through one of the most picturesque parts of Ebey's Landing in a flash.
Justin Bell and Townsend Bell (no relation) spent a quiet Wednesday afternoon last week racing a Lexus IS 350 FSPORT. They raced down Ebey Road, drifted through a hair-pin turn onto Hill Road near the bluff trail, regained speed as they whizzed by the beach before negotiating a series of curves on the narrow road in the woods before speeding past a historic, red barn located just outside the treeline.
As for who won? Tune in to "Shut up and Drive" to find out. The show featuring Ebey's Landing airs at noon, Sunday, Sept. 29 on Fox Sports 1.
Justin Bell, who has competed in the 24-hours of Le Mans, and Townsend Bell, who has raced in the Indianapolis 500, are the hosts of the latest driving show to appear on television.
Justin, who is from London, said it's not just the actual road that is being featured, but the environment. He noted the beauty of the trip to Whidbey Island, which included a ferry ride along with a drive through most of the island before ending up on a remote beach near Coupeville. He was surprised at the weather swings he noticed throughout the day, which included periods of sun, fog and rain.
Townsend said he always enjoys visiting the Pacific Northwest. This week's visit marked the first time he visited Whidbey Island.
The 1.8 mile-course provided some surprises for Townsend.
"The road was a bit more daunting than I expected," Townsend said. He described the course as fast and said the moisture in the woods posed some concerns.
"Shut Up and Drive," which airs on the newly formed Fox Sports 1, seeks to find amazing roads for two drivers to race their vehicles.
"It's every car guy's dream to find the perfect stretch of road," said Bobby Akin, vice president for Fox Sports.
The show has already filmed episodes in the Rowena Loop in Oregon and the Valley of Fire in Nevada.
Akin said Ebey's Landing was chosen out of 70 possible locations. The coastline, forest lands and the undulating roads made Whidbey a good choice for the television program.
"Half of my crew wants to live here," Akin said.
The production of "Shut Up and Drive" brought a crew of around 40 people to Whidbey Island. They shot on Wednesday and Thursday after spending the earlier part of the week in Seattle.
To allow for the driving through Ebey's Landing, Ebey Road at Cook Road and Hill Road were intermittently closed on both days. Island County Sheriff's deputies oversaw the road closures. A low-flying helicopter was used during the production. It took a month for the production company to go through the permitting process.
Whidbey Island has enjoyed some exposure in print and television.
Sherrye Wyatt, marketing and public relations director for Whidbey Camano Islands Tourism, said she has been hosting travel writers visiting Whidbey Island throughout the summer. In July, King 5's Evening Magazine featured a Coupeville purse shop and scouting is currently underway for an independent feature film that will be shot on Whidbey.
"We hope the exposure from the production will be positive for Whidbey Island," Wyatt said.
She said she has been working with Washington Filmworks, which is a nonprofit tasked with attracting film projects to the state. She has provided the agency with a catalogue of film-friendly locations throughout the county and state. She said she works with state agencies to find projects that are both a good fit for film companies and for the Island County community.


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Much to my astonishment, there is one man, Jean-Francois Manguet, who is not only interested in the history of fingerprints but also in the science of skin and how fingerprint technology is portrayed in movies, among many other things. It looks like Manguet is an engineer who "invented the sweeping technique for direct silicon fingerprint scanning." He was the chief scientist on the FingerChip, a fingerprint sensor project. Since then, he has followed all things fingerprint-y, including the biometrics of fingerprinting and the physics of fingerprint sensor technology. It's quite worth a browse around the site, despite the technical obscurity of some of the pages.
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With the spring daffodils barely gone, Southern California braced Wednesday for a weeklong blast of triple-digit temperatures and heightened fire danger across the region.
And when the weather year ends Monday, Los Angeles expects to tally its sixth driest year on record.
"This is definitely the first protracted heat wave of the season," said Bill Patzert, climatologist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. "And it's come early.
"On one side of the country, it's raining and stormy. And the other, bone dry with extreme heat. And the pattern is supposed to hold for a week."
Forecasters said a massive high-pressure system that has eclipsed much of the West is expected to increase temperatures by up to 10 degrees per day through the weekend before gradually tapering off by Thursday. In the meantime, the East Coast faces massive storms and floods.
As unseasonal wildfires have burned throughout the West, the early summer heat wave precedes the prolonged heat incidents normally seen in late summer or fall.
"It's going to be a significant heat wave of the season," said David Sweet, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Oxnard. "I think the fire danger is significant, in near-critical conditions" -- but not quite dry enough to issue a red-flag warning, he said.
The weather service issued an excessive heat warning from the Inland Empire to the low desert, where the mercury Saturday was expected to hit 97 degrees in Ontario, 102 in San Bernardino and a smoking 117 degrees in Palm Springs.
An excessive heat watch was also issued beginning Friday for mountains across the Southland, where lower elevations were expected to reach 108 degrees and record temperatures up into the 90s at higher altitudes.
Motorists en route to Las Vegas -- expected to hit 117 -- will brave a searingly hot stretch and were warned to pack extra water and be prepared for a long drive home. "It's bumper-to-bumper traffic, and you're going 10 miles per hour because cars are breaking down because of the high heat," said Ken Clark, an Inland Empire meteorologist at AccuWeather.
With low humidity and extended heat, children, seniors and those with chronic ailments were warned to guard against heat exhaustion, stroke and illness. To provide relief for the elderly and others, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health will open cooling centers throughout Los Angeles County, announced Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. For a complete list, call 323-459-3779, or go to publichealth.lacounty.gov.
Few parts of Los Angeles will be spared the cauldron, with downtown expected to soar Saturday into the 90s, the hills around downtown into the 100s, and the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys up to 105 degrees.
Parts of the Mojave desert in the Antelope Valley were expected to hit 111 degrees Saturday and Sunday before gradually cooling off through the week.
Only the beaches were expected to hold off into the upper 70s and 80s. Mountain cities, meanwhile, employed their cooler heights to beckon tourists.
"We are at least 20 to 30 degrees cooler here," said Dan McKernan, spokesman for Big Bear Lake. "It would behoove people to escape the heat."
With no rain forecast before Monday, downtown Los Angeles was poised to receive 5.85 inches since July 1, 2012 -- 39 percent of normal -- making it the sixth driest year in 135 years of measuring. With less than 3 inches of rain since January, it was the eighth driest January-to-June on record. The period usually accounts for 75 percent of SoCal rainfall.
"In January, the well went dry, and we were pumping dust," said Patzert, who noted that the Northern Sierra snowpack for January through June was lower than any time since record-keeping began in 1921. As a result, he said water districts across the region may be struggling.
Los Angeles has experienced an extended dry spell. Since the El Nino deluge ended in 1998, only four of the past 15 years have recorded higher rainfall than the normal 15.14 inches. More thirst may be in store for 2013-14.
"We could see another La Nina, the diva of drought," Patzert said. "So it could be dry all over again, "Before the large lady yodels, we may be talking the R word -- (water) rationing."
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Just as The Public Theater's free-to-the-public Shakespeare in the Park season is getting started at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park next month, the Public will be offering another free Shakespeare-themed event. On June 17 at 8pm, they will be hosting "What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money, and Morals," a Public Forum event that invites attendees to take part in a town hall-style discussion.
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Franklin Lakes, NJ and Malvern, PA -- Monday, May 4, 2009 -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company; NYSE: BDX) and Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc., announced today the signing of a worldwide development and supply agreement for oncology diagnostic assays.
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Studies indicate that early cancer detection can significantly reduce mortality. For example, ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancers in the United States and the fifth-leading cause of cancer death in women. An estimated 22,000 new cases occur annually in the United States. The disease is difficult to detect early because it typically triggers few noticeable symptoms. By the time ovarian cancer is detected, it is often too advanced and difficult to control. Research has shown that the five-year survival rate for women diagnosed in the later stages of the disease is as low as 20 to 30 percent. However, the survival rate can be greater than 90 percent when ovarian cancer is detected in its early stages.
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Fujirebio Diagnostics developed an HE4 test to be used in conjunction with the company's existing CA125 biomarker, the current gold standard for monitoring ovarian cancer. This combination of biomarkers, as published clinical data shows, provides clinicians with a diagnostic tool that can provide higher sensitivity and specificity than CA125 alone. Improved sensitivity and specificity should allow clinicians to distinguish between benign and malignant pelvic masses more accurately, helping to ensure that patients receive appropriate therapy earlier.
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Fujirebio Diagnostics is the premier cancer diagnostics company and the industry leader in cancer biomarker assays. Fujirebio Diagnostics specializes in the clinical development, manufacturing and commercialization of in-vitro diagnostic products for the management of human disease states, with an emphasis in oncology. Fujirebio Diagnostics is one of the group companies of Miraca Holdings, Inc., in Japan, set up in July 2005 to combine Fujirebio Inc., the leading in-vitro diagnostics company, and SRL, Inc., the top provider of clinical laboratory testing services in Japan. Fujirebio Diagnostics has a worldwide distribution network, which enables physicians and patients to access its diagnostic products. For more information about Fujirebio Diagnostics, please call 610-240-3800 or visit www.fdi.com.
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My first attempt at Elaine May's Coffee Date Dress. I had to take it in quite a bit from the size I measured at and cut out. Though I sew a dress almost every other week, the facing technique was a little confusing. I got it figured out eventually. Overall a great pattern to work with and a cute dress. I wish I'd remember to get pictures of my projects at the beginning of the day before they are a wrinkled mess, but oh well.
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They slip by fast, but not all TV spots are so simple
The old rule of thumb in design is the KISS principle: "Keep It Simple Stupid." Or, as some people write it, "Keep it simple, Stupid." Either way.
The advertising business long ago adopted the adage. The newspaper business tries to adhere to it as well.
But we're living in complicated times. And apparently some things require a little more explanation.
That may explain the rash of not-so-simple auto industry commercials this year. Not bad commercials, necessarily. Just complicated commercials.
Chevrolet and Nissan have had their hands full explaining in simple sound bytes and fleeting images why their new-generation electric vehicles, the Volt and the Leaf, are different from the norm, different from each other and worth consideration.
A recent Nissan Leaf spot slips in the technological news -- just in passing -- that the car can be used to provide electricity for the owner's house.
General Motors recently got into some trouble in the United Kingdom for its spot saying the British version of the Volt has a 360-mile range. While English authorities scoffed at the claim, it does deliver that range, but the electric car has to tap its gasoline engine to make it happen. Which nonetheless really is advanced technology, but all that nuance just doesn't quite fit succinctly into one of those three-sentence TV spots.
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Then there's the splashy Fiat 500 commercial showing the little cars crashing off cliffs in Italy and careening off narrow Italian roads and falling into the sea. They are making their way to the United States, the viewer learns at the end of the spot. But isn't that kind of a long way to go for a punch line? Besides, isn't the car produced in Mexico?
The car is "Italian designed," the commercial has to explain at the end, as though justifying the preceding 56 seconds of water crashes.
There is also the "Let's Talk Truth" series now running for TrueCar. The commercial is straightforward and simple in telling listeners that people pay various prices for their cars. But then graphs begin to appear in the sky showing the arcing range of prices that each car has, before a spokesman mentions the fact that TrueCar relies on a "network of trusted dealers" to determine consumer prices.
All of which is true. But it's just complicated to convey in simple imagery -- especially the part where the car in your driveway shows a price on the arc that is about 20 percent of the way up from the bottom. Exactly how much extra did you pay?
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The past couple of decades saw TV advertising trending away from 60-second spots in favor of 30 seconds and sometimes even down to 15-second blips.
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